Bernadette E. Hartmann

Bernadette E. Hartmann, 101, of Endicott, N.Y., formerly of East Stroudsburg, was escorted into Heaven on the morning of April 24, 2013.

Born Sept. 23, 1911, in Deer Creek, Minn., she was a daughter to the late Cecil and Mae Paulson Klawitter Beards. She graduated from Deer Creek High School in 1930.

She and her husband, Raymond W. Hartmann, were married in 1933, moved to Cherry Valley in 1937, and relocated to East Stroudsburg.

As a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother, Bernadette loved her family, endeavoring to cook, can, bake, sew, quilt and make picture albums for the joy of her entire family. On her first computer, she wrote and subsequently published a book, "The Life of Raymond & Bernadette," in 1989. Later, in the age of technology, she scanned pictures and made CDs to share with the family. Email and face to face computer calls kept her in touch with the whole family up and down the East Coast. After leaving her homestead of 60 years in Minisink Hills, she lived with her daughter in Endicott, N.Y., for the past five years.

Bernadette's warm grace, wisdom and wit of her life over the last 101 years will be greatly missed by her beloved family and friends.

She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Craigs Meadow Road, East Stroudsburg.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Raymond W. Hartmann, on Sept. 4, 1996; her daughter, Phillis M. Hallett on Feb. 18, 1999; her son-in-law, Clyde M. Hallett on Jan. 25, 2013; grandson, Gregg A. Hartmann on Nov. 20, 2010; and her brother, Robert J. Beards.

Surviving are three children, Bennie C. Hartmann and his wife, Mary, of Sykesville, Md., Rodger R. Hartmann and his wife, Dolores, of East Stroudsburg and Linda M. Reeves and her husband, Caswell, of Endicott, N.Y.; and a daughter-in-law, Ruth Hallett; 14 grandchildren and their spouses; 49 great-grandchildren and their spouses; and three great-great-grandchildren; three nieces, Patricia Fish and her husband, Norman, Bonnie Ronco and Mary Lou Malik.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, April 29, at the St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Craigs Meadow Road, East Stroudsburg, with the Rev. John Harding, her Pastor, officiating. Interment will follow in Laurelwood Cemetery, Bryant Street, Stroudsburg.

A public visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until the time of service Monday, at the church.